Caddo Motor Company

Caddo Motor Company is a Texan truck manufacturer based in Denton, Texas. It has additional manufacturing facilities in: Sainte-Thérèse, Canada; Saltillo, Rio Grande, and Adelaide, Australia. In 2006, Caddo opened a plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands to launch a new series of cab-over European trucks.

The company was founded in 1924 by a group of loggers of indigenous Caddo descent, who were looking for a more effective method of transport to get their logs to the mill. Their first plant was constructed in Nacogdoches in 1926, earliest trucks being built at their sawmill shops in Woden. It was this facility that built most of their trucks until 1946, after which a second facility was built in Waco. These two facilities produced trucks until 1986.

In 1986, Caddo moved production to Denton, Texas, constructing a new state of the art facility.

Due to Caddo's long lasting relationship with Republica Ranch, the main workshops at Cotulla are licensed to build specialty Caddo trucks for use at Republica as well as for sale to other local companies. These trucks are of the same construction and use the same components but feature custom fabricated extras, such as bullbars, flatbeds, racks, and specialty sleeper configuations. These trucks are branded with a specialty Caddo/Republica badge.

Elysian Trailers

In 1990, 4 years after opening its new truck factory in Denton, Caddo founded Elysian trailers to begin offering standardised semi-trailers, the trailers being constructed in nearby Sanger. In 2007, after the opening of its Rotterdam plant for European trucks, Caddo announced that Elysian would begin offering trailers to European markets under the name Elysian EuroTrailers and being built in an area of its Rotterdam factory.